8.9.09

Friends and other randoms who read my blog religiously,

I half-way apologize for not being in blog-think mode as of late.You know, you are either thinking as a writer/blogger...or you're not.Kinda like taking pictures with the aim of putting them on Facebook versustaking pictures where you look normal, boring and not 45% better than you normally do...I've been doing the literary version of not sucking in, putting my chin down and using a coy, aloof grin.Sorry.

Not that anyone has mentioned missing my postings. (Not even Mom).But for myself I need to get back in the habit of writing...even if my mostadventuresome traveling takes place in Washington D.C. or revolves around Alabama away games to places like Lexington and Oxford (both of which I'll probably miss by the way).

So here goes. It's midnight-ish here in Dupont Circle. My first trip to our nation's capital.Which is pretty blog-worthy if I do say so myself. So far I'm quite impressed with this city.Some of that has to do with the fact that the bridges crossing the Potomac closely resemble those that cross the Seine. No coincendence considering a Frenchman by the name L'Enfant helped design the city. I like roundabouts, too.

There is a lot of character here. And beauty. And I'm loving Kramerbooksand Georgetown. Tomorrow I'm going to foodstalk an Ethiopian restaurant.

The Broad Abroad

This blog started as a way to keep in touch with family while I lived and worked in Jodhpur, India. Since then I've been in France, Germany, Belgium, back to Alabama, back to France...and now in Alabama again. So, it's a little bit travel, a little bit cross-cultural, a little random and maybe politically incorrect. As of August 2009 it will focus more on international everything in Birmingham. Next up is a sojourn to ARGENTINA in December 2009.